Now, I have already installed TeXLive 2012 manually, therefore I do not need lmodern, luatex, etc. I could find this page with instructions. Basically, I installed equivs, created a file texlive-local taking the example from the above address as model (noting, that, for example texlive’s version in precise is 2009-15), then ran:

$ equivs-build texlive-local

This created a file texlive-local_2009-15_all.deb, which I could install with:

$ sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2009-15_all.deb

and then I could install bibtex2html without unnecessary extra packages.

In case it is useful for anybody else, here is the texlive-local file I used.

Org mode was updated recently to version 8.0, and together with many great features, an unfortunate consequence it brought is that many lovely features of org2blog/wp no longer work. There is hope for the future, but in the meantime, I will post with Emacs 24.3.1, and the org-mode that comes with it (Org-mode version 7.9.3f).

bibsnarf.el is a nice tool to get BibTeX entries conveniently from Emacs. Even though it seems that it has not been updated since 2007, it still works with mathscinet, but not with arxiv.org. With the following redefinition, bibsnarf works for me with arxiv:

We've already discussed editing root-owned files here a few times; it's one of those tasks where in a reflex I still open a terminal and use vi to do the job… the only way to overcome that seems to be to make it really easy to do the same from within my running emacs: (defun djcb-find-file-as-root () "Like `ido-find-file, but automatically edi […]

The R package animation has a function saveLatex() which creates a tex document (and compiles it) with the animation created by your R code. It essentially produces the individual image files and a tex file that uses the LaTeX package animate to create the animation in the pdf. Here is an example of an R ... [Read more...]

Until recently, the avy command avy-goto-char-timer read one char or two chars if the latter was typed within avy-timeout-seconds. This command is the one I use most frequently of all avy commands (you can say, it’s basically the only one I use except for avy-goto-line), so I’ve improved it with this commit and this pull request which I guess will be accept […]

Regular readers know that I’m fascinated with how non-coders use Emacs and especially how (prose) writers leverage it to remove friction from the writing process. Phil Daniels over at The Copytist is a professional writer who’s working on a longish … Continue reading →